Traylor Howard

Traylor Howard is an American actress who broke into the business through commercials, appearing in a chewing gum ad while in high school and in an AT&T spot in 1994. Her first major television part came in 1996, when she played Joy Byrnes on the NBC sitcom Boston Common for both of its seasons, and from 1998 to 2001 she starred as Sharon Carter in Two Guys and a Girl, an ABC sitcom. On film she took the female lead in Dirty Work (1998), played Jim Carrey's unfaithful bride in Me, Myself & Irene (2000), and appeared in Son of the Mask (2005). She also acted on stage at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 2000 and guest starred on The West Wing in 2002. From 2005 to 2009 she played Natalie Teeger, the assistant to Tony Shalhoub's detective, on the USA Network series Monk, a part she revisited in Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023).